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Thursday, May 23. 2019

A while back I got my hands on a nice PCIe 2.0 network interface card.

The thing looks like this:

In theory, that's an extremely cool piece to run in one of my Linuxes. Two 10 gig ethernet ports! Whoa!

Emphasis on phrase "in theory". In practice it's just a piece of junk. That's not because it wouldn't work. It does kinda work. I have to scale down the DDR3 RAM speed into 800 MHz just to make the hardware boot. Doing that will get 12 GiB RAM out of 16 available. Something there eats my PCIe lanes and forces them to work at unacceptable low speeds.

This is a serious piece of hardware, for example in Amazon.com the going price for such item is $340 USD. Given the non-functional state of this, I got this with a fraction of it. Given my personal interest in such toys, I had to go for it. This time it didn't pan out.